[TBP]

That article makes miracles seem rather trite, doesn't it? The author makes miracles into non-miracles.

Well, as Einstein said, you can live as if everything is a miracle or as if nothing is. I prefer to live as if everything is a miracle; I find it much more awe-inspiring, rewarding, and fulfilling.

As Oscar Hammerstein reminded us, "A hundred million miracles are happening every day."

And A Course in Miracles says that "Miracles are natural. If they are not occurring, something has gone wrong."

[LearsFool]

But if "everything is a miracle", then nothing is. For instance, if the sun comes up tomorrow, is that a miracle? Some would say, "Yes, that's a miracle." Well if the sun coming up every morning is a miracle, what would we say if the sun DIDN'T come up tomorrow? What would we call THAT? :-)

Don't you see that such a view of miracles obscures their purpose? And their purpose is not merely to make us feel happy and fulfilled, but to point us to that which CAN make us feel happy and fulfilled - namely, serving God.

The miracles recorded in the Bible were God's way of testifying to the truth of the His word - beginning in the establishment of the nation of Israel in the Old Testament, and later in the gospel of the kingdom. The purpose was to produce faith.

"...how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?" - Hebrews 2:3-4

John recorded Jesus' miracles so that we can believe:

"And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name." - John 20:30-31